Research Catalog

Title

The warmwatersphere of the North Atlantic Ocean / edited by Wolfgang Krauss ; with contributions of A. Beckmann [and others].

Publication

Berlin : Borntraeger, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Krauss, Wolfgang, 1931-
• Beckmann, A. (Aike)

Description

x, 446 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• Ocean circulation > North Atlantic Ocean
• Ocean circulation
• Warmwassersphäre
• Meeresströmung
• Wassertemperatur
• Circulation océanique > Atlantique (océan ; nord)
• North Atlantic Ocean
• Atlantischer Ozean > Nord

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-434) and index.

Contents

• COMMENTS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE GENERAL CIRCULATION OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN / W. Krauss: The knowledge about currents and stratification during the nineteenth century -- Systematic explorations until 1945 -- Interpretation of the large-scale circulation -- CLIMATOLOGICAL FLUXES AT THE SEA SURFACE / L. Hasse, R. Lindau and E. Ruprecht: Marine meteorological data -- Climate of the Atlantic Ocean -- Meridional heat transport -- THE NORTH ATLANTIC MEAN CIRCULATION: COMBINING DATA AND DYNAMICS / J. Marotzke and J. Willebrand: Catalogue of dynamical equations used with inversions -- Data sources and accuracy -- Remarks on inversion techniques -- North Atlantic inverse models -- LARGE-SCALE TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN HIGH-RESOLUTION CIRCULATION MODELS / C.W. Boning and F.O. Bryan: Model configurations -- Dynamics of the subtropical gyre -- Meridional overturning and heat transport -- STABILITY OF THE THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION / S. Rahmstorf, J. Marotzke and J. Willebrand -- Causes and types of multiple equilibria -- Feedback processes affecting the thermohaline circulation -- Advective spindown of the thermohaline circulation -- Rapid convective transitions -- Why the present conveyor belt? -- Variability of the thermohaline circulation --
• GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF MESOSCALE EDDIES IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN / D. Stammer and C.W. Boning: Distribution of eddy energy -- Frequency-wavenumber characteristics -- Eddy generation -- What can we learn from a seasonal variation of eddy energy? -- WESTERN EQUATORIAL CIRCULATION AND INTERHEMISPHERIC EXCHANGE / L. Stramma and F. Schott: The water masses -- Southern hemispheric inflow into the equatorial region -- The equatorial zonal current system in the Atlantic and its seasonal cycle -- Equatorial upwelling and meridional circulation -- Pathways of interhemispheric exchange and heat transport -- Equatorial circulation and cross-equatorial flow in numerical models -- THE WESTERN BOUNDARY CIRCULATION OF THE SUBTROPICAL WARMWATERSPHERE / F. Schott and R.L. Molinari: Circulation in the western subtropical boundary regime near 24°N -- Circulation of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico and sources of the Florida Current -- Western subtropical Atlantic circulation in models -- Longer period variability -- THE GULF STREAM SEPARATION PROBLEM / J. Dengg, A. Beckmann, and R. Gerdes: Observational basis of Gulf Stream separation -- Gulf Stream separation in ocean general circulation models -- Theories on Gulf Stream separation --
• THE GULF STREAM, THE NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENT, AND THE ORIGIN OF THE AZORES CURRENT / R.H. Kase and W. Krauss: The path, current structure and transport of the Gulf Stream -- The Gulf Stream Extension Area -- The branching of the Gulf Stream and the permanency of eddies in the Newfoundland Basin -- The North Atlantic Current between the branching area and the Northwest Corner -- The separation of the North Atlantic Current from the Canadian continental slope -- Water masses and mixing in the Newfoundland Basin -- The continuation of the North Atlantic Current toward the east and the north -- The origin of the Azores Front and the Azores Current -- The North Atlantic Current and the Azores Current in numerical models -- An interpretation of separation and eddy shedding of the North Atlantic Current and the Azores Current -- EASTERN RECIRCULATION / G. Siedler and R. Onken: Mean flow in the eastern suptropical gyre -- Water masses, subduction and mixing processes -- Gyre ventilation and transition to the shadow zone -- Variability of the flow field -- Fronts -- STRUCTURE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN WATER AND MEDDY CHARACTERISTICS IN THE NORTHEASTERN ATLANTIC / R.H. Kase and W. Zenk: Observational aspects -- Dynamical aspects of meddies -- Meddy simulations -- Integral effects of meddies.

ISBN

• 3443010334
• 9783443010331

LCCN

96225429

OCLC

• ocm36656335
• 36656335
• SCSB-8855694

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library